The whole plant is larger than /3, already given in No. gi4* 

 Its flowers are tinged with green down the back of their fegments. 

 Cultivated by Gerard in 1596. Blooms in May and June. 

 For further account of the fpecies, and for the other fynonyms 

 fee the above-cited number. G. 



NOTES. 



Allium Cepa. (3. bulbiferum. Tree Onion. Supra No. 1469. 



" A plant called the onion-tree, which is met with in the Canadian 

 " gardens, is of a curious nature. Its ftalks run up to the fame 

 ** height, and it has much the fame appearance, as the common 

 K onion when in feed ; but it contains feveral branches, and at 

 " the end of each a duller of moderate-fized onions. Thefe are 

 " its feed and if left in the duller will frequently branch out, and 

 * s each bear other clutters, but of a more diminutive fize." 



Lambert's Travels in Canada, &c. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 439. 



The vegetable Mr. Lambert has defcribed, is the variety of 

 the common onion, publifhed in No. 1469 of this work. Upon 

 reading this paffage, it occurred to us as probable, that the 

 bulbiferous habit which diftinguifhes the variety, has been in- 

 duced by the culture of the parent-fpecies in a region fo much 

 colder than its natural one, as that of Canada mayjuftly be 

 prefumed to be ; and that proving in this form an ufeful addi- 

 tion to the kitchen-garden, fcions have been remitted thence to 

 Europe, and thus given rife to its appellation of " the Canada- 

 onion," and confequent confufion with Allium canadenfe (fee 

 No. 1469); the origin of which name and error is otherwife a 

 myftery to us. We fcarcely need obferve, that many bulbous 

 plants are known to become viviparous (i.e. to bear bulbs in 

 the place of feed) when tranfplanted into fituations colder than 

 thofe to which they naturally belong. G. 



Scilla romana. Supra No. 939. 



The following fynonym may be fubjoined to thofe already 

 given in the above article j J 



Bellevalia opercalata. Picot de la Peymfe, injourn. de Phyf. 

 de Delameth. 67. 425 ; et in neues Journ. fur die Bot. vom 

 Schrader. v. 3. pars 4. p. 121. 



Monf. Picot de la Pey rouse, having lately found this 

 plant in the vallies of the Pyrennees, had deemed it fui generis and 

 nondefcript. G. 



